Output a report directly to PDF?

Hey everyone, does anyonw know how to output a report directly to PDF?
That is, without passing any parameters, but defaulted in the report
itslef. So a user would not have a choice to view it in the report
manager?I think the only way to do this is to have your own frontend. No way to
configure the server to do this (I think it would be a bad idea overal, PDFs
are much much slower and more compute intensive). I agree for some reports
it would be nice to mark it as rendering only in a certain format. But, no
capability for that exists.
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
<Daniel.P.Lyonnais@.lmco.com> wrote in message
news:1131047107.559743.200760@.f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Hey everyone, does anyonw know how to output a report directly to PDF?
> That is, without passing any parameters, but defaulted in the report
> itslef. So a user would not have a choice to view it in the report
> manager?
>|||Daniel;
You can simply render the report as a PDF file as shown below. Will that do
what you need?
Wayne
=======================================Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim rs1 As New Wedding.rs.ReportingService
rs1.Credentials = New System.Net.NetworkCredential("myServer", "tmyPW", "")
Dim results As Byte(), image As Byte()
Dim streamids As String(), streamid As String
' Render the report to HTML4.0
results = rs1.Render(Session("ReportPath"), "PDF", _
Nothing,
"<DeviceInfo><StreamRoot>/WebApplication1/</StreamRoot></DeviceInfo>",
Nothing, _
Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, streamids)
Response.BinaryWrite(results)
End Sub
<Daniel.P.Lyonnais@.lmco.com> wrote in message
news:1131047107.559743.200760@.f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Hey everyone, does anyonw know how to output a report directly to PDF?
> That is, without passing any parameters, but defaulted in the report
> itslef. So a user would not have a choice to view it in the report
> manager?
>sql

outlook web access - weird

I have subscriptions setup to deliver reports in PDF format to users email
address. No problem there. When the email is opened in the Outlook client,
the attachment appears as expected and can be opened. The problem is when
the user accesses their email using Outlook web access (OWA). The email
appears and even has the paper clip identifying the attachment. However,
when the email is opened. the attachment is gone."chicagoclone" <chicagoclone@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have subscriptions setup to deliver reports in PDF format to users email
> address. No problem there. When the email is opened in the Outlook
> client,
> the attachment appears as expected and can be opened. The problem is when
> the user accesses their email using Outlook web access (OWA). The email
> appears and even has the paper clip identifying the attachment. However,
> when the email is opened. the attachment is gone.
Can they open other pdf-files from their OWA?
Any security settings in play?
Did they test their OWA on a machine they knew there was a PDF-reader
installed on?
I know that sometimes I need to download pdf-files on my computer before
opening them in my OWA. But I'm quite sure the link for downloading is there
when I open the message, though.
Kaisa M. Lindahl|||they can open other pdf's through OWA, just not the ones delivered through
reporting services.
"Kaisa M. Lindahl" wrote:
> "chicagoclone" <chicagoclone@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F54988C0-2987-484D-AE80-F0B50F002E1D@.microsoft.com...
> >I have subscriptions setup to deliver reports in PDF format to users email
> > address. No problem there. When the email is opened in the Outlook
> > client,
> > the attachment appears as expected and can be opened. The problem is when
> > the user accesses their email using Outlook web access (OWA). The email
> > appears and even has the paper clip identifying the attachment. However,
> > when the email is opened. the attachment is gone.
> Can they open other pdf-files from their OWA?
> Any security settings in play?
> Did they test their OWA on a machine they knew there was a PDF-reader
> installed on?
> I know that sometimes I need to download pdf-files on my computer before
> opening them in my OWA. But I'm quite sure the link for downloading is there
> when I open the message, though.
> Kaisa M. Lindahl
>
>